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Salvete pariter omnes vos nobis redditum esse voluptati est in hoc filo loquimur solum latine si me amatis causam hanc tractabitis diligenter vobis vicissim precamur prosperam valitudinem

>> No.19155206

κάκιστ᾽ ἀπολοίμην εἴ τι τούτων πείθομαι ὧν εἶπας, cinaede.

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>>19155180
Now listen here sonny, I don't speak Spanish, but let me tell you about my depression anyway.

>> No.19155221

>>19155208
ταῦτα δῆτ᾽ οὐχ ἀγχόνη;

>> No.19155874

>>19155180
bvmp

>> No.19155998

>>19155180
I’m a new Latin learner. Can someone explain why “est” is usually at the end of the sentence but sometimes in the middle? The two textbooks I’m working with don’t explain this.

>> No.19156783

>>19155998
Latin has a pretty free word order. Most typically you see est at the end of the phrase where most verbs go, but you can place it earlier for stylistic or metrical reasons without literally changing the syntactical meaning of the sentence but perhaps slightly changing the emphasis.
For example, if you were to say, "Dux sapiens est," that has the sense of, "The leader is wise," but "Est dux sapiens," is more like, "There is a wise leader." Now the emphasis is that a wise leader exists, and not that the leader is wise.

>> No.19156803

>>19155998
What >>19155998 said.
Additionally, the function of words in a sentence is more dependent on their declension then on their place within the sentence.
Although this is mostly a thing in classical latin. Postclassical latin has a more "normal" and recognizable syntax.

>> No.19158214

>>19156783
>>19156803
Ok thanks. That’s sort of what I figured with regard to being able to move the word order around, but was unsure since in some languages the word order is rather strict.